Solaris XFree86 Video Drivers and Porting Kit. The Solaris XFree86 Video Drivers and Porting Kit enables you to use XFree86 video drivers with the X Window System server for Solaris 8 (x86 Platform Edition) or for Solaris 9 (x86 Platform Edition). Apr 29, 2006 How to Install Solaris 10. Mac/unix vs IBM/windows compatible. Windows being 'evil' LOL. I had to go to the realtek website and there I found and downloaded the driver for my card and it came in Solaris version. So you might wanna go to your control panel, click on system, go to the HARDWARE tab and click on device manager. I am new with Solaris. And sure I have some problems!!! I just installed Solaris on my MacBook. More precisely on an external usb hard-drive! You can get a pc as good as a mac, if you want to spend 1500 for a video card that will do what my dual 450 cpus puters ati rage 128 pro w/16mb of memory will do, and if you want to spend an.
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I currently own a 2006 Macbook Pro 1.1, and since some months I have recurrent problems of displays bug or artifacts. I searched quickly around to see that a lot of other users on Mac (iMac or Macbook Pro) also have the same problem due to a problem for the X1600 video card. Apparently it's due to overheating problem, in my case even without warming a lot I have very bad display bugs such as colorful pixel lines, or glitches, and freeze and crash, all of this on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
I found this interesting article here talking about this problem and trying to gather people so that Apple take the serious GPU problem in consideration.
In one of the comments, an user said he removed all bundle named with 'radeon' and then he had no more problems under Leopard, and seems ot work fine well too on Snow Leopard. I did the same thing, I removed the bundles of the driver, restart, and no more problems, but not more 3D acceleration, which is not an acceptable solution.
For those interested, here is the list of files to be deleted to stop having this problem.
I would like to know if there is a way to fix this using other drivers if that's possible or by creating a group to force Apple to make a replacement program in place.
Edit : How to locate those files on your hard drive if you are not under Snow Tiger :
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Thanks for the info!Before going to the last-resort option of entirely disabling the Graphics card, I instead tried to lower the temps that the GPU get to - this has appeared to work very well!
The permanent solution (for me) was using the free & Excellent 'Fan Control' SysPref - simply increase the 'Base Speed' (for me, from 1500rpm to 2000rpm) and I also reduce the 'Upper Threshold' to 70°C - thus the fans will work harder to keep temps down should they rise.I like this solution because, in theory, it will always makes sure the temp stays below the crash-point (with tweaking of the fan-rpm vs. CPU-Temp settings). I suppose One can assume that CPU temp and GPU temp are correlated - they are in the same aluminum box!
I coupled that with 'iStat Menus' (I think it's ShareWare) to monitor CPU & GPU temp (obviously GPU is more important here).Dace appears to have the right numbers - as long as my GPU temps is around or below 48°, no line glitches, and no freezes!
Thanks to everyone who posted their thoughts, it was very helpful in tracking down this elusive problem!
Screenshot:Fan Control & iStat Menu monitoring
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I too experienced the heat problems with my MacBook pro with the x1600. I am convinced that the graphic issues on my machine are directly related to the temperature of the GPU. Once the temperature gets above 60c my system starts to exhibit graphics glitches (tearing striping etc…).
*** – the real solution to this problem for me was to vacuum the rear vent with a powerful (2000W) vacuum cleaner. I spent several minutes pressing the wand of the vacuum tightly against the crack and moving it back and forth where the screen meets the main body of the notebook. I went to the trouble of vacuuming the croissant crumbs out of the keyboard at the same time :) . You will know when you get to the right spots because the smcfancontrol display will show your fans revving up to 7500rpm when the vacuum is over each fan exhaust port. This cleaning procedure shaved at least 15 degrees off of my temperatures.
My computer used to run at 58c at idle, and now it sits at 40c. It used to peak (and often lockup) at 75c, now I am hard pressed to get it above 60c.
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Firefox and some plugins use your graphics card to help speed up the display of web content. Graphic cards are also used by advanced web features like WebGL. To fix problems with these features or to take advantage of them, you may need to update your graphics card drivers. This article describes how to do that.
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Using Windows Update
Some recent graphics driver versions are made available as an optional update from the Windows Update feature. If you haven't set Windows to automatically install recommended updates, follow these steps:
Windows Vista:The View available updates panel will open. Click 'Optional'.
Windows 7:The Select updates you want to install panel will open.
In Windows 10, all drivers are automatically downloaded and installed through Windows Update but you can manually search for an updated graphics driver. See Microsoft's support article, Update drivers in Windows 10 for details.If there are no updates available or if the updates don't solve your problems, continue to the next section.
Using your computer manufacturer's system update tool
Some computer manufacturers include a system update tool that updates drivers and bypasses the Windows ones. You may be required to use this tool to update graphics drivers.
Just search for this tool from the Start menu. Some possible search terms are the name of your computer manufacturer (such as Dell or HP) or generic terms like 'update', 'maintenance' or 'driver'. Open the tool and apply all available updates.
If there is no update tool, no updates available, or if the updates don't solve your problems, continue to the next section.
Use your distribution's standard update process
If your distribution's standard update process doesn't give you the latest drivers, you may need to look for other package repositories for your distribution. For example, to upgrade closed-source drivers on Ubuntu, you may need to go to System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers.
Using the latest generic graphics drivers
You can also install a generic graphics driver from your graphics card manufacturer's website. These are usually kept up-to-date and are designed to work on a variety of systems:
If you don't know which graphics card you have, look in the graphics section of Firefox's about:supportTroubleshooting Information page.
Note: Hardware acceleration is not available for graphics cards from other manufacturers.
Note: After downloading the graphics driver, the installation wizard may prevent you from installing it because your current driver is customized by your computer manufacturer.
Warning: With some combinations of computer and graphics card, you may experience problems with generic versions of software drivers.
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Reboot your computer to use the new graphics driver.
Unfortunately, due to the wide range of possible driver, video card and operating system combinations, hardware acceleration or 3D web graphics (WebGL) may still not work for you in Firefox. In these instances you fix the problems by disabling hardware acceleration and WebGL.
Turning off hardware acceleration
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